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  <h1>About myKaryoView</h1>
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Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetics testing is a new field of commercial activity that allows 
genome screening and testing to the general public. For several hundred dollars, 
anyone can have his/her genome tested by the service provider. Results are shown via an 
account to a website with information about the tests and what they mean. These results 
are however limited to the tools provided by the company and do not necessarily offer a lot 
of flexibility for their exploration. Here we present a light-weight open source visualization 
tool named myKaryoView intended for visualization of data resulting from DTC genomics tests.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.23andme.com/">23andMe</a> is a company that provides DTC tests, 
consisting now a days of ~1M SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms), using  
client's spit. This personal 'genome' is then analyzed with in-house reporting systems.
No genome browser is available specifically designed for users to interrogate their 
genome data using 23andMe or any other DTC genome data.</p>

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<p><b>myKaryoView</b> is a web tool for visualization specifically tailored to DTC
of genomic data that works in most 
contemporary browsers and uses publicly available data distributed throughout the Internet. 
This means that there is no need to hold the data locally and that it is capable of 
rendering any data as long as it conforms to a standard protocol named 
<a href="http://www.biodas.org/wiki/Main_Page">DAS</a>. Configuration 
and addition of sources in <b>myKaryoView</b> can be done through the interface 
and its usability is limited only to the time of request completion and data rendering.</p>

<p><i><b>myKaryoView</b> should be considered a tool in constant development.</i> Here we offer
 a proof of principle for <b>myKaryoView</b>'s ability to display SNP data 
from 23andMe results. A manual explaining how to install and configure 
myKaryoView is provided in the <a href="http://mykaryoview.com/FAQ.html">FAQ page</a>. 
We hope you find it interesting and useful.</p>

 <p>Prior to publication, please acknowledge <a href="http://www.rajido.com">Rafael Jimenez</a> 
      and <a href="http://manuelcorpas.com/about">Manuel Corpas</a> if using <b>myKaryoView</b>. </p>

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  <h1>23andMe Family Genomes</h1>
  <p>Five relatives in the same family (the Corpas family) have made available via DAS their 23andMe
  genomes.<p>A <a href="http://manuelcorpas.com/five-family-relatives-genome-download/" target="_blank">page</a> 
  has been created  that describes the origins, the genealogic tree and the data. A detailed  explanation is offered on 
  how to access, download and visualize this  data using <b>myKaryoView</b>:<br><br>
  <a href="http://manuelcorpas.com/five-family-relatives-genome-download/">http://manuelcorpas.com/five-family-relatives-genome-download/</a></p>
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